I have absolutely no doubt, that after due consideration, the town council will conclude that Mr Paul Bartlett (not even worthy of the Monster raving Loony Party) should be awarded the towns Brush (off), not only in recognition of his unwanted services but also to sweep the streets until death do part him & brush!CamerCleggs-take note of what went on here!

The Herr will be lending his services to The TyrantMentoring Program run by ASH.

And, if the “grapevine” is correct, the Herr has accepted anappointment to be Lansley’s limo driver….. which is sort of like driving anambulance. The Herr only needs to complete the “rudimentary arithmetic” and “cocktailmixing” courses, and familiarize himself with the location of brothels in thegreater city area.

Town Councils are the tiniest unit of elected representatives in England, and are legally exactly the same as civil Parish Councils. They really don't have many powers. You can't get a smaller unit without being a single Freeman and that doesn't count.

As a result, not all Town/Parish Council seats are contested and many remain vacant.

While not wishing to knock the hundreds of intelligent and committed Parish councillors who work hard at this tiny community level, such bodies do tend to attract more than their fair share of persons who - shall we say kindly - wouldn't shine in larger areas of public life or indeed normal social life. They are driven by their own egos and sometimes by ideas which are plainly cuckoo.

It's ridiculously easy to get elected to a Parish Council, by opting as Paul Bartlett has now done for a ward which is uncontested. Perhaps a few of us should try it sometime.

Perhaps there has been another 'incident' ?http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=paul%20bartlett%20assault&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CD4QFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcmis.milton-keynes.gov.uk%2FCmisWebPublic%2FBinary.ashx%3FDocument%3D30362&ei=-LOFT5CdE-am0AXg2qzPBw&usg=AFQjCNHnXu0BPjCC5hm5jlCD2cNZN2d7zw

How about this one. See the end of the document. http://cmis.milton-keynes.gov.uk/CmisWebPublic/Binary.ashx?Document=35128

So he might have got off the complaint about bullying in JaneBest's link. But it seems that he has a certain personality trait which predisposes him to being forceful and robust. Actions which a reasonable person would see as bullying even though it isn't actually defined as such in legal code. But then a legal code trying to define human behaviour is prone to failure.

As an aside, considering that the Standards Board only meets four times a year, the document I linked to has a hell of a lot of complaints about councillors and others. It might for the whole of the Milton Keynes area, but even just a few should be surprising. To have pages and pages of complaints shows that the councillors and others are pretty much arseholes, unless it's only a few being repeatedly complained about.